Rampersad: Midterms unlikely to shift T&T-US ties

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr In­di­ra Ram­per­sad be­lieves the out­come of the Unit­ed States midterm elec­tions is un­like­ly to change Trinidad and To­ba­go’s for­eign pol­i­cy align­ment with Wash­ing­ton, de­spite the De­moc­rats mak­ing gains in Con­gress.

Speak­ing on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew pro­gramme yes­ter­day, Ram­per­sad said the re­sults sent a warn­ing to the Re­pub­li­can Par­ty about de­clin­ing pub­lic sup­port but cau­tioned against in­ter­pret­ing them as a ma­jor set­back for Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.

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She said the re­sults could lim­it the pres­i­dent’s in­flu­ence over do­mes­tic is­sues, par­tic­u­lar­ly bud­get and fund­ing mat­ters, but were un­like­ly to sig­nif­i­cant­ly af­fect his for­eign pol­i­cy agen­da.